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Mormon Moment Series on poetrysansonions.blogspot.com

Ahhhhh! The smell of fresh, juicy, slightly wrong Mormon blog posts. It must be Sunday! I have been doing a series of posts related to Mormon and Post-Mormon issues that seem to be *hot* this year. With more and more people interested in Mormons, and now the change in rules for when male and female missionaries are allowed to serve, the Bloggernacle keep heating up! So, if you missed the first posts in the series (because I was a slacker and wasn’t cross posting) here is your chance to catch up. Read more [...]

Posted by Julia on October 7th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Bloggernacle, Community, Contest, Culture, Depression, discrimination, Education, Empathy, Family, Feminism, Gender, General Conference, Marriage, Mormon Culture, Mormons, Parenting, Patriarchy, Politics, Polygamy, Sex and Gender, Suicide, Tolerance, Women, Youth

Making Peace with the Loss of Certainty

One of the more difficult things that came with recognizing that the Mormon Church wasn’t 100%, literally “True” was that this paradigm shift introduced incredible levels of uncertainty into my knowledge of God and the purpose of life. Previously, I knew that if I was in good standing with the LDS Church (i.e., temple-worthy), I was therefore in good standing with God. I knew that there was a God, and what He looked like (i.e., an exalted human being, with us mortals cast in his image). I knew that Read more [...]

Posted by Madame Curie on December 16th, 2009 | 18 Comments Posted in DAMU, Death, Moving On, post-Mormon, Truth, Uncategorized